Liam Eifert English 802 October 12‚ 2014 Graffiti in Urban Society Defining what is or is not art is difficult. Another concept that is difficult to define is what constitutes a crime and why something is considered a crime. In the case of graffiti and street art‚ both of these difficult concepts collide‚ creating a very controversial subject. Since the beginning of simple hip hop graffiti in Philadelphia during the 1960s‚ graffiti has evolved into many different forms and has developed a subculture
Premium Art Street art Graffiti
JR is a 25-year-old middle-classman of the Parisian background. He never reveals his full name because he says it would add nothing to the art. In his teenage years‚ he tagged as a graffiti artist‚ but only started taking photographs when he was 17-year-old when he found a camera on the Paris Métro. JR calls himself an "urban artivist". He creates art that he displays on buildings in the Paris projects‚ walls of the Middle East‚ and other countries across the world. During the pasting phase‚ the
Premium New York City Art Street art
Kassandra Morales English 1010 Paper 2 10/26/14 Graffiti art People argue back and forth for years about graffiti art intensely. But it is art through illegal vandalism Graffiti is still art. The artwork on graffiti is brought out wrongly from different point of views. The complexities of the different forms of artwork used are used in many different ways. Graffiti has a certain ‘appeal’ to many people. It gives an unknown person a chance to speak through art. The textures and shadowing they
Premium Graffiti Art Street art
Next‚ graffiti is acknowledged by many people and it causes no harm to people. The first place that graffiti receives acknowledgement from is other graffiti writers. In “Documenting Illegal Art: Collaborative Software‚ Online Environment and New York City’s 1970s and 1980s Graffiti Art Movement” by Rachel Masilamani‚ she talked about the social movement of graffiti. She wrote‚ “At its heart‚ graffiti is about documenting presence; it is a way of saying ‘I was here‚’ but up until the early 1970s writers
Premium Art Graffiti Writing
various tools on any makeshift canvas they can find. The word that we use to identify this so-called art is graffiti and I believe that graffiti is somewhat of an epidemic. Graffiti has been around since the times of ancient Egypt and it doesn’t look like it’s going to disappear anytime soon. Graffiti can be used in many different ways depending on which country you’re in. Since graffiti has been around since the times of ancient Egypt‚ ancient Greece‚ and the Roman Empire‚ it has spread all over
Premium Graffiti Property Hip hop
What is graffiti? Could it be that it is gang related? Well no it’s not graffiti is a special kind of art that people do. These people are talented‚ some do it to express themselves and show their feeling out to the world. Gang members tag which is a big difference from graffiti. Graffiti is art and people have the right to do it if they want to. One morning you can pass by a plain white wall and the next morning or later in the afternoon it can be painted with beautiful colors and a nice picture
Premium Art Graffiti Street art
of New York‚ graffiti and street art have made their marks as the most ancient form of resilient communication. Whether viewed through the lens of skeptics or supporters‚ the practice remains in the gray area of legality‚ despite it’s remarkable positive artistic and creative worth. Graffiti has many unsung beneficial traits‚ and encompasses an entire urban culture‚ as is highlighted in The New York Times article “Writings on the Wall (Art is too‚ for Now)” by Robin Finn. Graffiti is portrayed
Premium Street art Art Graffiti
through photos‚ paintings‚ writing‚ or music art is everywhere. The oldest art is estimated to be roughly forty thousand years old graffiti paintings in Indonesia. Today graffiti has a negative connotation as destructive or negative in society due to the fact that it is art done without permission on someone else’s property. However since the early 1960’s Graffiti art and murals have become much more widely accepted and recognized for their cultural and artistic value. Here in downtown phoenix
Premium Crime Police Criminology
ESSAY OUTLINE I Thesis Statement: Graffiti should be banned. BODY I ( general prohibition) Counter Argument 2: It is an art which some express themselves with. Refutation 2: There are some other certain ways of expressing feelings and ideas which are not illegal acts. BODY II ( enve ) Counter Argument 1: There are new kinds of graffitis which are harmless to environment. Refutation 1: The percentage of graffiti artists using enviro-friendly graffiti is a tiny little amount when we look at
Premium Art Street art Graffiti
England. The son of a photocopier technician‚ he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s." Observers have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and Jef Aerosol who sprayed his first street stencil in 1982 in Tours France‚ and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass‚ which kept up a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His work
Premium Graffiti